The following API will handle with such case. For the SAX
SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
factory.setValidating(true); // don't forgot this
SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser();
XMLReader reader = parser.getXMLReader();
reader.setEntityResolver(##you own error handler##);
reader.setErrorHandler(##you own error handler##);
For the DOM
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance()
factory.setValidating(true); // never forgot this
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
builder.setEntityResolver((##you own error handler##););
builder.setErrorHandler((##you own error handler##););
Be very awear of handling the error correctly in your Handler class, Never Try To Use The DefaultHandler. you may drop into the trap. look at the java api of the org.xml.sax...DefaultHandler of error
public void error(SAXParseException e) throws SAXException
receive notification of a recoverable parser error. The default implementation does nothing. Application writers may override this method in a subclass to take specific actions for each error, such as inserting the message in a log file or printing it to the console. Specified by: error in interface ErrorHandler you can never image that the sun provide us a api that skip the error handling. that is stupid in most of the case I think. actually, I spend to much time on it today. hope you good luck.